January 31, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Trump's press conference on the plane crash & problems with air traffic control
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week & Mailbag!
- The confirmation hearings
- Katie Green's Headlines!
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Armstrong and Joky enough he.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Arms from the studio scene.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
See you are, am I correct that it is the
common workday known as Friday that tends to people get
people's hearts racing with excitement. That's pretty exciting.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Your heart is racing with excitement. See your physician right away.
You've taken one too many flomax or something. Anyway, dimly
let room, et cetera, et cetera. Today we're under the
tutelage of our general manager, the enthusiastic about anyone in particular,
I have a decent one.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Anything leap to mind. I hadn't thought about it. If
I was gonna think about it for a second, you know,
maybe Rand Paul. We've got some great audio from Rand PAULA.
You know what I was gonna go with was Donald
Trump and his arch nemesis, Donald Trump right right. I
was just reading Mark Helprin's morning newsletter before we went
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on the air, as I do every single day. I
think he's the best political reporter in America. But he
said there are no articles anywhere with anybody, even on
background explaining why he decided to attack the pilots yesterday
of the helicopter after a crash, just speculate, And Mark
(01:47):
Helprin's summary was, that's just because that's who he is
and always has been and always will be. And some
people like it, some people put up with it. It's
not gonna do him any harm because nothing new and
the end, Yeah, the attack in the pilot's thing was
weird and bad. The DEI stuff. Originally, I thought, well,
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it's pretty early to be jumping on that as an
excuse or anything like that. But it's becoming more and
more clear that there is a tremendous lack of air
traffic controllers around the country, including at Reagan Airport at
the time of the crash. They're having way fewer than
they are supposed to have. They're supposed to have thirty
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and they have nineteen or something like that, and particularly
that night dealing with that they had one instead of two.
And there was a lawsuit last year. One thousand people
that had applied to be air traffic controllers got together
with a class action lawsuit and now it hasn't been
settled yet, but they are claiming that they got turned
away because of their race. They were otherwise qualified. If
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it turns out that we have half as many air
traffic controllers in this country, then we're supposed to because
you're turning away people that are qualified. Right, because of
the whole DEEI thing, that's going to be quite the
explosive story, whether or not that directly was the reason
this crash happened. Who knows? All right, Well, first to
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the first part of the point. Yeah, I've come across
some stuff that I'll share later on that suggests very
very strongly that the standards and the methods by which
we get our air traffic controllers were perverted completely to
serve DEI goals. So he's absolutely right on that. I
just my gripe with it was that was not the
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time and to throw it out there without evidence instead
of presenting it as a rock solid indictment that nobody
could deny and winning the day is just you know,
just a loose reference here and kind of a half
accusation there, and that's not the way to prosecute a
case and turn the ship of the culture around. I
(03:55):
just find it frustrating. Yeah, Well, if the topic is
critiquing Trump's press conference, that's true. Moved on to the
what's wrong with our air traffic control system because clearly
they got half as many people as they're supposed to. Well, yeah,
but my point is if you want to fix it,
you can't be dopey strategically. Yeah, yes, it's a huge issue.
Pete Hegzeth is out on it and he is going
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to get to the bottom of it, and uh yeah,
and if that turns out to be the case, So
they laid off so many air traffic controllers over COVID
when nobody was flying, and then when people tried to
come back to work when people started flying again, they
wouldn't let a whole bunch of people come back because
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they weren't the right color or gender or sexual orientation
or whatever those quota is intact. That's despicable. Well, if
that's the case, and it sure looks like it is,
and it doesn't need to be the specific cause of
this crash, right, it's so horrific, And I think it's
interesting The New York Times has really gone big on
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this story for what reason. The whole we talked about
this yesterday at the end of the show why what
airplane crashes get so much attention. I mean, it's just
amazing we've had. This is the worst one we've had,
and now it's like twenty five years or something like that.
It almost never happens. It's the safest thing you'll do today,
if you go fly on a plane. It's certainly safer
than driving to the airport. But anyway, we go crazy
(05:21):
over air crashes. Washington Crash renews concerns about air safety
lapses since the New York Times, and they get into
a lot of how we're understaffed at Reagan Airport and
at airports all across the country. They do not get
into the why because that might be uncomfortable, But hmm,
that is interesting that they are pointing out that a
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lack of air traffic controllers is a big hole we've
got all across the United States. Air traffic control tower
at Reagan National has been understaffed for years. The tower
there was nearly a third below targeted staff levels, with
nineteen fully certified controllers as of this past fall, when
they're supposed to have thirty some. But again, they don't
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get into the why. Well, we're going to get into
the y or the Trump administration is going to get
into the why well, and we are too, And it
is a shocking indictment. And you know, this is the
age of hyperbole, and I hate to sound like I'm
just trying to be hyperbolic, but it is truly a
shocking indictment of the way the federal government has been
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run and how it's leached into society. Something as critical
as life and death as air traffic control was perverted
to become some sort of social upward mobility program, regardless
of qualification. It shocks the conscience. It does if it
turns out and it really looks like it's going to
that we have half as many controllers as we're supposed
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to because you didn't want white males to get the
job or whatever. That's insane. Yeah, and you think that's okay,
that is crazy. So yeah, maybe even if that wasn't
specific the reason and be impossible to nail that down, obviously,
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it doesn't make any difference. That's somebody at some point
decided that's how many air traffic controllers we should have
and how many we used to have right in the end.
But again, even if that horrific tragedy hadn't occurred very
very recently, it would still be an incredible problem that
needed to be solved. I'd say, just outrageous. Well, I
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believe that played a role in some of those meltdowns
over some of the holidays where we you know, the
planes got all out of whack and backed up and
everything like that, because the lack of air traffic controllers
and being able to deal with the number of flights
and stuff like that. So just conveys in addition to safety. Well,
I've heard fifty times we don't have enough air traffic controllers. Yeah,
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without pointing out the why. Now we're pointing out the why.
I can't believe how off track we got and we
all and we're gonna go another four years down that road.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Whoa oe.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
As doctor Savage said many years ago, I'm paraphrasing, progressivism
is a mental disorder. I want to start the show officially.
Then I want to tease a couple of things that
I think are really really interesting on on a Friday, Man,
I have been sleeping so poorly this week. I got
to get figured out. Oh me and my son both
got off track where we're so tired that we went
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to bed super early. Couple nights ago. Well, we went
to bed so early, we woke up in the middle
of the night. But then you end up, you know,
you get in a you get stuck in a loop
there where then like yesterday, we went to bed really
really early because we were so tired we could barely
move around the house. But then we're up in the
middle of the night again. Anyway, I'm laying there awake
from like one thirty on. And when when are you
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sound asleep? Where when are you so deep asleep? It's
like you're in a coma when your alarm goes off. Oh,
it's just, it's just, it's just it's just tartarus, oh, melitonia,
like you've been drugged and you just don't wake up.
It's the worst I feel. Yeah, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's
Joe Getting on this Friday, January thirty, first year, twenty
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five or Armstrong in getting. We approve of this program.
All right, let's begin that officially according the FCC rules
and regulations, the FCC a strict meritocracy. By the way,
here we go proceeding at Mark.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
I chose to wait on my hepatitis B vaccine, and
we did it when they went to schools. That made
me an awful person? Does that make me an anti vaxxer?
Because I questioned the government dictative whether I do it.
And I'm not speaking for anybody else. I'm only speaking
for myself. But for goodness sakes, let's have an honest
debate about these things.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Senator Ran Paul, You don't want him for a neighbor
because he'll put your his long clippings on your lawn.
But well, I know how to turn that around. That's
a great rant yesterday about the hearings about vaccinations, about
a whole bunch of different stuff that we will feature
later in the show, really really good, thought provoking stuff.
I thought it was terrific, especially the last part. Whatever
(09:59):
he's think about, you know, vaccines in the schedule and
the rest of it. But he echoed the point that
was made in that brilliant essay I was reading part
of the other day that the only thing that really
threatens us is not people getting something wrong. It's when
we're forbidden from saying it's wrong, or questioning it or
having an honest debate about it. That is when something
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is dangerous. So yeah, let's talk about all this. So
I was just wondering those of you did dry January.
It's the thirty first, you're gonna go ahead and not
drink tonight. I would think if I liked to drink
at all, I would think I made my point. It's Friday,
gonna go Hendry. If you're not gonna drink to night
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for dry January, then you should get no credit for
dry January. You're not really a drinker anyway, so look
to do. That's like me. That's like me saying I
did know yoga January and I stayed away from yoga
the whole month for instance. Yeah, I see your point
or I don't. I don't know if I agree with
you. You're just you're doggedly going to finish it because you
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committed to it. God bless you. I think you made
the point. Go ahead drinking before they got him. How
does mailbag look? Oh, it's fine. Plus we have clips
of the week in moments all on the way. Here's
our text line four KFTC. I was playing around with
the new Apple update that's got the AI in it,
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especially the stuff around the camera. Really interesting. Talk about
that later if you haven't messed around with it yet.
I have excuse me, I have not. Actually, it's fun,
curious to know more, and it's a glimpse into the future. Yeah,
I'm a guy who likes a nice three hundred page
manual to come with every device. I don't. I don't
like the idea that I've got to go seek out
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how to do stuff on the internet. Stuff like I'm
never going to read a manual under any circumstances. Well, well,
so we have a freedom loving quote of the day
that's terrific coming up. Plus mailbag is excellent. But first
let's take fun look back at the week. There was
it's cal clips of the week? Yah yah, who whips
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of the week? I just saw Firebone. Then it was
just gone who.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Did not know what led to this crash, but we
have some very strong opinions.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
How you can come to the conclusion right now the
diversity has something to do with this crash, because I
have common sense.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
One of the dumbest phrases in military.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
History is our diversity is our strengths.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Our diversity is not our strength.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Our unity and our shared purpose is our strength. Three
tough Hearings Loom Tulsi Gabbard, Cash Pattel and RFK Junior.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
You may hear lies and smears in this hearing accusing
me of being Trump's puppet, Putin's puppet, Assad's puppet, a
Guru's puppet, Mody's puppet. Not recognizing the absurdity in.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
That threat, I was called a detestable scent.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
That's what was sent to me.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You're asking me not to vaccine company one of all
these onesies.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
I'm supportive of vaccines.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
You have velcrole in the cross. What's wrong with snaps?
It is one piece of clothing that satisfies the needs
of the entire baby. Are you in favor of this
or not?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
You're getting the dirt banks off these streets.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Exactly. Give me the authority to go into churches, going
to school, the empowered law enforcement to enforce the law.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I appreciate I could do something that I don't know
what to do.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
We got Quarterman Americans dead and fan off Crocross at
Olden Border.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Where's the tears for them? Tom Holman showed up in
Chicago and within twenty four hours found a convicted sex offender.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
That that is their job, the federal jobs, not to kis.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
He's a huge problem.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
In our neighborhood, the noise, they contamination. We don't know
these people, where they come from, if they have a
criminal record. Son lost his mom.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
In the most unthinkable tragedy.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
This is never something to forget and we're trying to
parent it.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Very nice to meet you.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I like to know what about sexual age of ratio.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I see, I see. We'll sell you a one two
musical bunch at the end of Cow. The most nominated
movie for the Oscars is about a trans person, of course,
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and transgender cartel leader in Mexico. And it's got Selena
Gomez and it features Mexico and the country of Mexico
hates it. Yes, yes, they laughed at the dramatic parts
we got. We gotta tell you that we're gonna play
that song again too. It is the most egregious, hilarious
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oscar bait, virtue signaling movie gasm in the history of
lefty Hollywood stupidity, unbelievable movie gasm. Here's your freedom loving
quote of today from ancient Chinese philosopher Laotsu. I love
this one, Jack, and you will too. I hope all
you folks love it. If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading. Yeah, some
(15:40):
of those are just so so simply true. Yeah. Yeah,
it's so interesting that human beings need to be reminded
of that sort of thing now. And yeah, I like
the If you keep doing what you're doing, you're gonna
keep getting what you're getting like that one. If something
can't go on like this, it has to change, it
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will stop, or this can't go on forever, it won't,
it will stop. Yeah, mailbag drops mail bag at Armstrong
yetdy dot com right into it. I love this note
from John. Diversity is an advantage. Unity is our strength.
But the fact that we have a system under which
diverse people can unite is our advantage over every single
nation on Earth, where racial and ethnic divisions always cause
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violent tensions and conflict. Liberals must take the effect for
the cause the unity of ideals, the American ideal, which
brings diverse people together. Bringing diverse people together does not
produce unity. Unity brings people together, I would agree. Plunging along,
we received a number of amusing or troubling stories about
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school bus drivers in the wake of a tale we
told the other day. This is my favorite Matt and
beautiful Macomb, Illinois. When he was a young marine in
the Northern Territory of Australia. He came across this headline
in the local paper, Mates put rum in school bus
driver's beer. Oh. Evidently having a beer as you make
her rounds was perfectly normal in Australia in two thousand
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and one. But his buddies put rum into his beer
and that was seen as a bad thing. Wow, two
great tastes. It tastes great. Together. We had a lot
more news to catch up on. I think it'll be
a good show. I hope you can stick around if
you missed a second in the podcast Armstrong and Getty
ond bed Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
I vaccinated all my kids. I believe vaccines are one
of the modern miracles. Beyond all Pale. The Speckled Monster
is a great book about the introduction of the smallpox
vaccine in seventeen twenty into our country. All miracles, But
I'm not a one size fits all. It's not all
or nothing. I chose to wait on my hepatitis bee
vaccine and we did it when they went to schools.
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That make me an awful person? Does that make me
an anti vaxxer? Because I questioned the government dictative whether
I do it, and I'm not speaking for anybody else.
I'm only speaking for myself. But for goodness, let's have
an honest debate about these things.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Ran Paul with pretty long rant during the hearings this week.
A lot of we shouldn't call it a rant because
that has a negative connotations. It's really really interesting and
we're going to play more of it. Yeah, and I
appreciate it. One of our themes of late has been
that the silencing of opposition is evil and almost always
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leads to evil, no matter the intentions, whether it's in
COVID or you know. And that's part of Rand's you
know speech here. So I'm not going to steal all
of a sudden, but the term alone pro vacs are
anti vax Which vaccine are we talking about? Why have
an overall category of vaccines where they are all either
bad or all good? That's nuts, Or any discussion of
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the schedule in which they're given, by which they're given
or whatever is just that makes you an anti vaxxer.
That was going to be my next point. The other
trend that we've seen writ large, and I don't know
if it's the Internet or it just always existed. Is
that certain people, certain political parties, government officials have really
taken to hanging labels on anybody who dares question anything,
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And by question, I mean, can we talk about this?
Why are we doing this in this way? You're an
anti whatever, or you're a puppet of whatever, you're a
neocon or what have you. The discrediting you know, name
that they paint on you just kindahired on a different
topic I heard it presented. Is so crazy that this
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cash pateell a guy, a guy who's criticized the very
organization he's hoping to run. What kind of world do
you live in? Where you should that that's out of line? Yeah?
What a strange world. It is all right, much to
be said, But let's let the Randy man take it over. Michael.
We'll just proceed on with the next clip.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
The COVID vaccine. If you ask me my opinion, they
were a poor run mping down the sol and they
say you still anti vaccine. No, I'm pro vaccine. But
on the COVID vaccine and on the COVID illness, there
was a thousandfold or more difference between the elderly and children.
If you don't acknowledge that you're committing malpractice. You're showing
your ignorance if you say a six month old must
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be mandated to get it. The science is not there.
So all this blather about the science says this, and
the science says that, No, it doesn't. The science actually
shows it. No healthy child in America died from COVID.
Look it up. No healthy child died from COVID.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Not one, not a single one in the third biggest
country in the world. And the kids were a far
less dangerous vector of disease than virtually anybody else, and
the schools remained close. Okay, don't get me started. Ah,
I thought that was terrific. Let's go on.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
So if you asked me my advice as a physician,
if you were sixty five or older, or overweight and
some other conditions, I would have said, hell, yes, I'd
take the COVID vaccine. The risks of the disease were
real and much greater than the vaccine. But if you
ask me, should my healthy six month old get it? See,
these are the nuances you're unwilling to talk about because
there's such a belief in submission. Submit to the government.
(21:13):
Do what you're told. There is no discussion. There ought
to be a debate. You're not going to let him
have the debate because you're just going to criticize and
say it is this and admit to it, or we're
not going to appoint you. But it's more complicated than that.
And this is why people distrust government, because you're unwilling
to have these conversations. And I go home, ask your
Democrat young mothers, your Republican young mothers if they're vaccinating
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their kid for appetitis B, and they're like, well, do
I have to do it on day one? Is this
precious little baby? Is there science to say you shouldn't
do it? Probably not, But it's my kid.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
You know.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
It's like there isn't clear cut science saying not to aughtit.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
The FED, Oh that's his dad. I think we cut
out edited out somehow. Him making the point that hepatitis
B is transmitted through drug use or sexual activity. You're
saying almost certainly not sharing needles as a heroin user
or engaging in sex. If they are, you're a bad parent. Exactly.
(22:08):
You've got one wild child. Yeah, I wouldn't worry about
the vaccine schedules. So much, you know, and the other
great trend that just makes me insane, and I know
it does to you too, Jack Is and Rand was
referring to it there. I know I can hear the
thinking of Fauci and company, Biden. If we're honest with
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people right about the vaccine or whatever, we'll get lower
compliance and therefore more people will get sick and perhaps die. Therefore,
we are doing them a favor by lying to them
and grossly oversimplifying what's happening here. Sure, we're gonna tell
pregnant women you can't have even a tiny drop of
alcohol at all, science says, because if we tell them
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you can have one drink and it's healthy, it's okay,
they'll take it too far. We don't trust people, so
we'll exaggerate to get them do How has that worked out?
It's I don't think it's worked. It's the sort of
lesson in human beings either never learn or they have
to learn over and over again. My answer to that is,
you don't get to do that. That's a judgment you
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can't but you aren't allowed to make. Don't give me
that s Tell me the truth and let the chips fall.
It's it's the same sort of hubris that the sensors
and quota fillers and DEI folks have no trust us
with the power to be racist. Because we are so
wise and benevolent, we will fix the problems of society
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using this terrible tool. No, you don't get to do
that next clip.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
But on autism, there's no good science of anything to
show what causes autism. We don't know. It's a profound disease.
I know many moms here and dads who have kids
with autis, know them personally, I've met their kids. But
the thing is is they saw their kids developing completely normal,
maybe making one hundred words go to no words at
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about fifteen months of age. Now, there isn't proof. There
isn't proof that the vaccines cause it. That's true. There
isn't proof that it calls it. But we don't know
what causes it yet. So should we be at least
open minded we take seventy two vaccines. Could it be?
I don't know, But we shouldn't just close the door
and say we're no longer because we believe so much
in submission, we're not going to have an open mind
to study these things. And so it's sort of this
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crazy notion.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Well, every parent has dealt with that. I remember when
I did, and then you just move on with your life.
When you start getting your kid shots there at the
hospital and there's so much going on and everything like that,
it's the first week of having a baby and know
everything like that, you don't research the dozens and dozens
and dozens of inoculations your kid gets. I hope that
you hope that they're they're right.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Settle two.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Is that that's the number that's floating around everywhere. That's
a lot. Yeah, it absolutely is. You know the point
Rand made that last screed that was a scientist talking
and the idea that you leap to one side or
the other and you're either in Eagles garb or Chief's garb,
if you will, on a question that is a million
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miles from being decided. That's a bizarre way to approach signs.
Keeping in defensible, Keeping in mind that you Eagles jersey wears.
A lot of you were wearing Chiefs jerseys pre Trump
when you were anti vaccine because you were convinced vaccines
were causing autism. They're all liberals, Yeah, leading that charge
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so strange.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Next, clip schizophrenia. I would put in the same notion.
You have a kid who's completely normal to eighteen or
nineteen and their brain goes heywire.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
How does that happen?
Speaker 5 (25:42):
It's the most bizarre disease. Shouldn't we be open Could
it be our food? Might be vaccines, It might be
our food. But autism is more common. I don't know
about the schizophrenia statistics, but autisms more common. Should we
want to be open minded? Instead, we're so close minded
and we're so consensus driven that thus and says this. Well,
science doesn't say anything. Science is a dispute, and ten
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years from now we could all be wrong.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
There's more on that theme.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Twenty years ago, they did this enormous study and they
said everybody over fifty should take an aspirin. I thought, well,
that's a pretty good idea. It makes sense. But you
know what, twenty years later they measured it and they
found if you had no heart disease and you were
taking aspen, your chance of dying from a brain bleed
or from a stomach bleed were greater than the risk
of heart disease. You have heart disease, they still say
take an aspirin if you don't have changed your mind
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twenty years later. But would you have all said I
was crazy and I should no longer be in public
discourse if I had said twenty years ago, I don't
feel like taking an asper. I ride my bike all
the time. I'm afraid I might hit my head. But
that's what country's about, what descent is about.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Excellent example, right, right, Or your neighbor might tackle you
over long clippings and you get a concussion. Finally, Oh again,
that's his dad, that's his dad, Jack. Finally this So, just.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
As you look at the larger picture and give the
guy break who says I just want to follow the
science where it leads without presupposition, I think, really what
we have up here is presupposition. You've already concluded it's
absolute that autism isn't caused by we don't know what
causes autism, so we should be more humble in what
we say. Sorry, I didn't get to a question.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
One of the very few times that I find a
rant to be you know, the juice worth the squeeze. Yeah,
the end of that need not be to you, whoever
you are. That Therefore, our FK. Junior is a perfect
choice to run HHS, you know, given his conflicts of
interest and stuff like that. I got some problems with
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the guy. So there's that too. But the Randyman's absolutely correct.
We need to be more humble in the face of
scientific uncertainty. I represent science. You were wrong about f
thing everything you old gain of function promoting lying murderer. Yeah. Usually,
(28:09):
like I was just talking about, you know, your kid
gets all the jabs and you don't look into the however,
many dozens and dozens of different jabs with the sciences
on him. You just go with it on this one
on COVID because it was such a giant cataclysm, the
biggest non war disaster in non war non asteroid disaster
in world history. So we you know, we hit more
(28:33):
scrutiny around it, and it turns out, yeah, they were
wrong about everything they told us. Dang dang, near everything
was wrong, and so maybe you ought to be a
little more skeptical when they start laying out all these
guidelines and rules for whatever the hell it is before
we uh just accept them as fact. I represent science.
I mean, we had a little we had a little
experiment here where we we we found out they're regularly wrong.
(28:58):
Even people, some of them are not without motives. But
even the people without motives, they can be wrong. They
want to be right as much as you want to
be right, but they're wrong a lot. It's just just
the you know, the way the world works well. And
I would like to sentence to a six month self
examination camp anybody who said the lab leak theory was racist,
(29:21):
for instance, or that asking hard questions of the Chinese
government was somehow racist or might cause anti Chinese bias.
You people are dangerous. Yeah, I hope we've come out
of that period. Got a little more on that, and
maybe we'll get to it later. I do want to
(29:42):
talk about the new download for the Apple phone with
the AI in it. H some interesting stuff. My son
and I were doing it with yesterday, very fun I
don't know if it's improved my texting or not. My
son said, it's so much better. Texting is so much
better now. It gets it right, way more offen and
when it's guessing your word. Since that, I don't know.
(30:03):
I haven't funny. I just said less than twenty four
hours ago to my beloved bride. Apple's voiced text is
getting worse and worse. But who knows. My high school
son said, Dad, literally nobody voiced text, but you literally nobody,
I said, I think old people do. Maybe young people
flying thumbs. They you know, they got the flying thumbs well.
(30:27):
Plus they're terrified of speaking, and anybody's hearing the evans too. Yeah,
and they're doing it in class. Would be disruptive to
the teacher. So you got it. Maybe that's where you
get your practice. We've got Katie's headlines on the way
weird in the football this weekend. I'd have gotten in
a role of watching a game every a game or
(30:48):
more every weekend and nothing this weekend Grammys Sunday night.
I like the Grammys. Joe hates the Grammys, but no
football til next weekend. I hate the awards part of
the Grammys having a bunch of interesting music that you
might not be aware of. I'm in favor of that.
The ords are stupid. Let's figure out who's reporting what
it's the lead story with Katie Green already starting with ABC.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
NTSB says preliminary investigation to take thirty days.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Final report will take up to a year. I think
they're gonna nail down the why do we have half
as many air traffic controllers as we're supposed to have
nationwide pretty quickly. I think that's going to be figured
out much sooner than a year. And the airline pilots
have been complaining about the helicopter traffic around Reagan for decades,
(31:39):
saying it's really dangerous. You need to do something about.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
From CNN, Trump's cabinet nominees faced sharpest bipartisan grilling to date.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Yeah, Tulsey Gabbard's on the ropes, especially cash Betel, flying colors,
RFK coin flip.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
You say today FBI tells multiple senior leaders to resign
or be fired.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I don't know this story. Okay, well do we know why.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
This is the DEI situation?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Oh? Okay, gotcha.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
President Trump's administration expanding its.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Purge, root and branch, as they say, you know, just
in general. I saw this graphy and Bremer put out
on his Twitter feed about Trumping going to war with
his own government or something like that was the headline
from something. You can easily divide people into two camps.
When you hear government employees are losing your job, you
(32:40):
think yay, or you think, oh, that's terrible because I'm
an immediate. Ya. When I hear government employees getting fired,
I mean, you know, there could be some extrenuous factors
that would change it. But my first emotion the shrinking
of any government agency is all right. But I know
(33:01):
people who's their first thought is all that's horrible. Okay,
that's a quick, pretty big dividing line between kinds of people.
Sit down, junior, let's talk about the deficit.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
From Fox News, Netan, Yahoo furious about chaotic handover of
Israeli hostages from Hamas.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Yeah, I wanted to get into that a little bit later.
Hamas has turned it into a we might kill you
or we might not. All right, I guess we'll let
you loose circus every time they turned hostages and touchdown
dancing about having one and everything. Whoa, that's rough.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
From NBC unprecedented number of lithium ion batteries complicating LA
wildfire cleanup.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Oh yeah, they'd burn with the heat of the sun
and take zillions of gallons of water to put out
those fires.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
It's an issue.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
From brightbart dot com made employees protest removal of tampons
from men's bathroom by bringing their own.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Right, go ahead, you dip s as nut jobs. This
is your big this is your big issue. You're a
real revolutionary or shade Rivera with your tampons for men. Ok,
this is the hill you're gonna die on? All right? Yeah? Wow,
you're the new MLK. What was your tampons for dudes stance?
(34:20):
Way to go farther than New York Post.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
South African woman has rescued more than twenty five hundred
of the lovable quote clowns of the dog world. She's
talking about pugs and at one point she had nineteen
of them in her house.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
That seems like plentyof.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
And your meme of the day, it's a picture of
a nice young woman and underneath it it says I'm
thirty five.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I have my whole life ahead of me.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
And the next to it is a picture of a
sports broadcaster and it says, here comes the oldest player
in the league.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
He's thirty two. A miracle. Yeah that is always where
about watching sports the old man who's thirty six? Yeah whatever.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
Finally, the Babylon B number of genders hits ten year low.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Yeah, I love that. Elon Musk tweeted out a great
graph number of genders in world from five thousand BC
until twenty twenty two, right from twenty twenty to like
a week ago seventy two, and from last week till
now back to two brilliant number of Genders hits all
(35:30):
time low. That's fantastic, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Armstrong and Joky enough he.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Arms from the studio scene.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
See you are, am I correct that it is the
common workday known as Friday that tends to people get
people's hearts racing with excitement. That's pretty exciting.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Your heart is racing with excitement. See your physician right away.
You've taken one too many flomax or something. Anyway, dimly
let room, et cetera, et cetera. Today we're under the
tutelage of our general manager, the enthusiastic about anyone in particular,
I have a decent one.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Anything leap to mind. I hadn't thought about it. If
I was gonna think about it for a second, you know,
maybe Rand Paul. We've got some great audio from Rand PAULA.
You know what I was gonna go with was Donald
Trump and his arch nemesis, Donald Trump right right. I
was just reading Mark Helprin's morning newsletter before we went
(01:27):
on the air, as I do every single day. I
think he's the best political reporter in America. But he
said there are no articles anywhere with anybody, even on
background explaining why he decided to attack the pilots yesterday
of the helicopter after a crash, just speculate, And Mark
(01:47):
Helprin's summary was, that's just because that's who he is
and always has been and always will be. And some
people like it, some people put up with it. It's
not gonna do him any harm because nothing new and
the end, Yeah, the attack in the pilot's thing was
weird and bad. The DEI stuff. Originally, I thought, well,
(02:11):
it's pretty early to be jumping on that as an
excuse or anything like that. But it's becoming more and
more clear that there is a tremendous lack of air
traffic controllers around the country, including at Reagan Airport at
the time of the crash. They're having way fewer than
they are supposed to have. They're supposed to have thirty
(02:31):
and they have nineteen or something like that, and particularly
that night dealing with that they had one instead of two.
And there was a lawsuit last year. One thousand people
that had applied to be air traffic controllers got together
with a class action lawsuit and now it hasn't been
settled yet, but they are claiming that they got turned
away because of their race. They were otherwise qualified. If
(02:53):
it turns out that we have half as many air
traffic controllers in this country, then we're supposed to because
you're turning away people that are qualified. Right, because of
the whole DEEI thing, that's going to be quite the
explosive story, whether or not that directly was the reason
this crash happened. Who knows? All right, Well, first to
(03:13):
the first part of the point. Yeah, I've come across
some stuff that I'll share later on that suggests very
very strongly that the standards and the methods by which
we get our air traffic controllers were perverted completely to
serve DEI goals. So he's absolutely right on that. I
just my gripe with it was that was not the
(03:34):
time and to throw it out there without evidence instead
of presenting it as a rock solid indictment that nobody
could deny and winning the day is just you know,
just a loose reference here and kind of a half
accusation there, and that's not the way to prosecute a
case and turn the ship of the culture around. I
(03:55):
just find it frustrating. Yeah, Well, if the topic is
critiquing Trump's press conference, that's true. Moved on to the
what's wrong with our air traffic control system because clearly
they got half as many people as they're supposed to. Well, yeah,
but my point is if you want to fix it,
you can't be dopey strategically. Yeah, yes, it's a huge issue.
Pete Hegzeth is out on it and he is going
(04:17):
to get to the bottom of it, and uh yeah,
and if that turns out to be the case, So
they laid off so many air traffic controllers over COVID
when nobody was flying, and then when people tried to
come back to work when people started flying again, they
wouldn't let a whole bunch of people come back because
(04:37):
they weren't the right color or gender or sexual orientation
or whatever those quota is intact. That's despicable. Well, if
that's the case, and it sure looks like it is,
and it doesn't need to be the specific cause of
this crash, right, it's so horrific, And I think it's
interesting The New York Times has really gone big on
(04:59):
this story for what reason. The whole we talked about
this yesterday at the end of the show why what
airplane crashes get so much attention. I mean, it's just
amazing we've had. This is the worst one we've had,
and now it's like twenty five years or something like that.
It almost never happens. It's the safest thing you'll do today,
if you go fly on a plane. It's certainly safer
than driving to the airport. But anyway, we go crazy
(05:21):
over air crashes. Washington Crash renews concerns about air safety
lapses since the New York Times, and they get into
a lot of how we're understaffed at Reagan Airport and
at airports all across the country. They do not get
into the why because that might be uncomfortable, But hmm,
that is interesting that they are pointing out that a
(05:42):
lack of air traffic controllers is a big hole we've
got all across the United States. Air traffic control tower
at Reagan National has been understaffed for years. The tower
there was nearly a third below targeted staff levels, with
nineteen fully certified controllers as of this past fall, when
they're supposed to have thirty some. But again, they don't
(06:05):
get into the why. Well, we're going to get into
the y or the Trump administration is going to get
into the why well, and we are too, And it
is a shocking indictment. And you know, this is the
age of hyperbole, and I hate to sound like I'm
just trying to be hyperbolic, but it is truly a
shocking indictment of the way the federal government has been
(06:27):
run and how it's leached into society. Something as critical
as life and death as air traffic control was perverted
to become some sort of social upward mobility program, regardless
of qualification. It shocks the conscience. It does if it
turns out and it really looks like it's going to
that we have half as many controllers as we're supposed
(06:49):
to because you didn't want white males to get the
job or whatever. That's insane. Yeah, and you think that's okay,
that is crazy. So yeah, maybe even if that wasn't
specific the reason and be impossible to nail that down, obviously,
(07:10):
it doesn't make any difference. That's somebody at some point
decided that's how many air traffic controllers we should have
and how many we used to have right in the end.
But again, even if that horrific tragedy hadn't occurred very
very recently, it would still be an incredible problem that
needed to be solved. I'd say, just outrageous. Well, I
(07:33):
believe that played a role in some of those meltdowns
over some of the holidays where we you know, the
planes got all out of whack and backed up and
everything like that, because the lack of air traffic controllers
and being able to deal with the number of flights
and stuff like that. So just conveys in addition to safety. Well,
I've heard fifty times we don't have enough air traffic controllers. Yeah,
(07:55):
without pointing out the why. Now we're pointing out the why.
I can't believe how off track we got and we
all and we're gonna go another four years down that road.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Whoa oe.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
As doctor Savage said many years ago, I'm paraphrasing, progressivism
is a mental disorder. I want to start the show officially.
Then I want to tease a couple of things that
I think are really really interesting on on a Friday, Man,
I have been sleeping so poorly this week. I got
to get figured out. Oh me and my son both
got off track where we're so tired that we went
(08:29):
to bed super early. Couple nights ago. Well, we went
to bed so early, we woke up in the middle
of the night. But then you end up, you know,
you get in a you get stuck in a loop
there where then like yesterday, we went to bed really
really early because we were so tired we could barely
move around the house. But then we're up in the
middle of the night again. Anyway, I'm laying there awake
from like one thirty on. And when when are you
(08:50):
sound asleep? Where when are you so deep asleep? It's
like you're in a coma when your alarm goes off. Oh,
it's just, it's just, it's just it's just tartarus, oh, melitonia,
like you've been drugged and you just don't wake up.
It's the worst I feel. Yeah, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's
Joe Getting on this Friday, January thirty, first year, twenty
(09:10):
five or Armstrong in getting. We approve of this program.
All right, let's begin that officially according the FCC rules
and regulations, the FCC a strict meritocracy. By the way,
here we go proceeding at Mark.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
I chose to wait on my hepatitis B vaccine, and
we did it when they went to schools. That made
me an awful person? Does that make me an anti vaxxer?
Because I questioned the government dictative whether I do it.
And I'm not speaking for anybody else. I'm only speaking
for myself. But for goodness sakes, let's have an honest
debate about these things.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Senator Ran Paul, You don't want him for a neighbor
because he'll put your his long clippings on your lawn.
But well, I know how to turn that around. That's
a great rant yesterday about the hearings about vaccinations, about
a whole bunch of different stuff that we will feature
later in the show, really really good, thought provoking stuff.
I thought it was terrific, especially the last part. Whatever
(09:59):
he's think about, you know, vaccines in the schedule and
the rest of it. But he echoed the point that
was made in that brilliant essay I was reading part
of the other day that the only thing that really
threatens us is not people getting something wrong. It's when
we're forbidden from saying it's wrong, or questioning it or
having an honest debate about it. That is when something
(10:20):
is dangerous. So yeah, let's talk about all this. So
I was just wondering those of you did dry January.
It's the thirty first, you're gonna go ahead and not
drink tonight. I would think if I liked to drink
at all, I would think I made my point. It's Friday,
gonna go Hendry. If you're not gonna drink to night
(10:41):
for dry January, then you should get no credit for
dry January. You're not really a drinker anyway, so look
to do. That's like me. That's like me saying I
did know yoga January and I stayed away from yoga
the whole month for instance. Yeah, I see your point
or I don't. I don't know if I agree with
you. You're just you're doggedly going to finish it because you
(11:05):
committed to it. God bless you. I think you made
the point. Go ahead drinking before they got him. How
does mailbag look? Oh, it's fine. Plus we have clips
of the week in moments all on the way. Here's
our text line four KFTC. I was playing around with
the new Apple update that's got the AI in it,
(11:26):
especially the stuff around the camera. Really interesting. Talk about
that later if you haven't messed around with it yet.
I have excuse me, I have not. Actually, it's fun,
curious to know more, and it's a glimpse into the future. Yeah,
I'm a guy who likes a nice three hundred page
manual to come with every device. I don't. I don't
like the idea that I've got to go seek out
(11:48):
how to do stuff on the internet. Stuff like I'm
never going to read a manual under any circumstances. Well, well,
so we have a freedom loving quote of the day
that's terrific coming up. Plus mailbag is excellent. But first
let's take fun look back at the week. There was
it's cal clips of the week? Yah yah, who whips
(12:10):
of the week? I just saw Firebone. Then it was
just gone who.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Did not know what led to this crash, but we
have some very strong opinions.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
How you can come to the conclusion right now the
diversity has something to do with this crash, because I
have common sense.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
One of the dumbest phrases in military.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
History is our diversity is our strengths.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Our diversity is not our strength.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Our unity and our shared purpose is our strength. Three
tough Hearings Loom Tulsi Gabbard, Cash Pattel and RFK Junior.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
You may hear lies and smears in this hearing accusing
me of being Trump's puppet, Putin's puppet, Assad's puppet, a
Guru's puppet, Mody's puppet. Not recognizing the absurdity in.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
That threat, I was called a detestable scent.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
That's what was sent to me.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
You're asking me not to vaccine company one of all
these onesies.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
I'm supportive of vaccines.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
You have velcrole in the cross. What's wrong with snaps?
It is one piece of clothing that satisfies the needs
of the entire baby. Are you in favor of this
or not?
Speaker 1 (13:32):
You're getting the dirt banks off these streets.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Exactly. Give me the authority to go into churches, going
to school, the empowered law enforcement to enforce the law.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I appreciate I could do something that I don't know
what to do.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
We got Quarterman Americans dead and fan off Crocross at
Olden Border.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Where's the tears for them? Tom Holman showed up in
Chicago and within twenty four hours found a convicted sex offender.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
That that is their job, the federal jobs, not to kis.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
He's a huge problem.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
In our neighborhood, the noise, they contamination. We don't know
these people, where they come from, if they have a
criminal record. Son lost his mom.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
In the most unthinkable tragedy.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
This is never something to forget and we're trying to
parent it.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Very nice to meet you.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
I like to know what about sexual age of ratio.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I see, I see. We'll sell you a one two
musical bunch at the end of Cow. The most nominated
movie for the Oscars is about a trans person, of course,
(14:53):
and transgender cartel leader in Mexico. And it's got Selena
Gomez and it features Mexico and the country of Mexico
hates it. Yes, yes, they laughed at the dramatic parts
we got. We gotta tell you that we're gonna play
that song again too. It is the most egregious, hilarious
(15:17):
oscar bait, virtue signaling movie gasm in the history of
lefty Hollywood stupidity, unbelievable movie gasm. Here's your freedom loving
quote of today from ancient Chinese philosopher Laotsu. I love
this one, Jack, and you will too. I hope all
you folks love it. If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading. Yeah, some
(15:40):
of those are just so so simply true. Yeah. Yeah,
it's so interesting that human beings need to be reminded
of that sort of thing now. And yeah, I like
the If you keep doing what you're doing, you're gonna
keep getting what you're getting like that one. If something
can't go on like this, it has to change, it
(16:03):
will stop, or this can't go on forever, it won't,
it will stop. Yeah, mailbag drops mail bag at Armstrong
yetdy dot com right into it. I love this note
from John. Diversity is an advantage. Unity is our strength.
But the fact that we have a system under which
diverse people can unite is our advantage over every single
nation on Earth, where racial and ethnic divisions always cause
(16:26):
violent tensions and conflict. Liberals must take the effect for
the cause the unity of ideals, the American ideal, which
brings diverse people together. Bringing diverse people together does not
produce unity. Unity brings people together, I would agree. Plunging along,
we received a number of amusing or troubling stories about
(16:48):
school bus drivers in the wake of a tale we
told the other day. This is my favorite Matt and
beautiful Macomb, Illinois. When he was a young marine in
the Northern Territory of Australia. He came across this headline
in the local paper, Mates put rum in school bus
driver's beer. Oh. Evidently having a beer as you make
her rounds was perfectly normal in Australia in two thousand
(17:09):
and one. But his buddies put rum into his beer
and that was seen as a bad thing. Wow, two
great tastes. It tastes great. Together. We had a lot
more news to catch up on. I think it'll be
a good show. I hope you can stick around if
you missed a second in the podcast Armstrong and Getty
ond bed Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
I vaccinated all my kids. I believe vaccines are one
of the modern miracles. Beyond all Pale. The Speckled Monster
is a great book about the introduction of the smallpox
vaccine in seventeen twenty into our country. All miracles, But
I'm not a one size fits all. It's not all
or nothing. I chose to wait on my hepatitis bee
vaccine and we did it when they went to schools.
(17:49):
That make me an awful person? Does that make me
an anti vaxxer? Because I questioned the government dictative whether
I do it, and I'm not speaking for anybody else.
I'm only speaking for myself. But for goodness, let's have
an honest debate about these things.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Ran Paul with pretty long rant during the hearings this week.
A lot of we shouldn't call it a rant because
that has a negative connotations. It's really really interesting and
we're going to play more of it. Yeah, and I
appreciate it. One of our themes of late has been
that the silencing of opposition is evil and almost always
(18:23):
leads to evil, no matter the intentions, whether it's in
COVID or you know. And that's part of Rand's you
know speech here. So I'm not going to steal all
of a sudden, but the term alone pro vacs are
anti vax Which vaccine are we talking about? Why have
an overall category of vaccines where they are all either
bad or all good? That's nuts, Or any discussion of
(18:46):
the schedule in which they're given, by which they're given
or whatever is just that makes you an anti vaxxer.
That was going to be my next point. The other
trend that we've seen writ large, and I don't know
if it's the Internet or it just always existed. Is
that certain people, certain political parties, government officials have really
taken to hanging labels on anybody who dares question anything,
(19:12):
And by question, I mean, can we talk about this?
Why are we doing this in this way? You're an
anti whatever, or you're a puppet of whatever, you're a
neocon or what have you. The discrediting you know, name
that they paint on you just kindahired on a different
topic I heard it presented. Is so crazy that this
(19:35):
cash pateell a guy, a guy who's criticized the very
organization he's hoping to run. What kind of world do
you live in? Where you should that that's out of line? Yeah?
What a strange world. It is all right, much to
be said, But let's let the Randy man take it over. Michael.
We'll just proceed on with the next clip.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
The COVID vaccine. If you ask me my opinion, they
were a poor run mping down the sol and they
say you still anti vaccine. No, I'm pro vaccine. But
on the COVID vaccine and on the COVID illness, there
was a thousandfold or more difference between the elderly and children.
If you don't acknowledge that you're committing malpractice. You're showing
your ignorance if you say a six month old must
(20:19):
be mandated to get it. The science is not there.
So all this blather about the science says this, and
the science says that, No, it doesn't. The science actually
shows it. No healthy child in America died from COVID.
Look it up. No healthy child died from COVID.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Not one, not a single one in the third biggest
country in the world. And the kids were a far
less dangerous vector of disease than virtually anybody else, and
the schools remained close. Okay, don't get me started. Ah,
I thought that was terrific. Let's go on.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
So if you asked me my advice as a physician,
if you were sixty five or older, or overweight and
some other conditions, I would have said, hell, yes, I'd
take the COVID vaccine. The risks of the disease were
real and much greater than the vaccine. But if you
ask me, should my healthy six month old get it? See,
these are the nuances you're unwilling to talk about because
there's such a belief in submission. Submit to the government.
(21:13):
Do what you're told. There is no discussion. There ought
to be a debate. You're not going to let him
have the debate because you're just going to criticize and
say it is this and admit to it, or we're
not going to appoint you. But it's more complicated than that.
And this is why people distrust government, because you're unwilling
to have these conversations. And I go home, ask your
Democrat young mothers, your Republican young mothers if they're vaccinating
(21:34):
their kid for appetitis B, and they're like, well, do
I have to do it on day one? Is this
precious little baby? Is there science to say you shouldn't
do it? Probably not, But it's my kid.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
You know.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
It's like there isn't clear cut science saying not to aughtit.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
The FED, Oh that's his dad. I think we cut
out edited out somehow. Him making the point that hepatitis
B is transmitted through drug use or sexual activity. You're
saying almost certainly not sharing needles as a heroin user
or engaging in sex. If they are, you're a bad parent. Exactly.
(22:08):
You've got one wild child. Yeah, I wouldn't worry about
the vaccine schedules. So much, you know, and the other
great trend that just makes me insane, and I know
it does to you too, Jack Is and Rand was
referring to it there. I know I can hear the
thinking of Fauci and company, Biden. If we're honest with
(22:29):
people right about the vaccine or whatever, we'll get lower
compliance and therefore more people will get sick and perhaps die. Therefore,
we are doing them a favor by lying to them
and grossly oversimplifying what's happening here. Sure, we're gonna tell
pregnant women you can't have even a tiny drop of
alcohol at all, science says, because if we tell them
(22:54):
you can have one drink and it's healthy, it's okay,
they'll take it too far. We don't trust people, so
we'll exaggerate to get them do How has that worked out?
It's I don't think it's worked. It's the sort of
lesson in human beings either never learn or they have
to learn over and over again. My answer to that is,
you don't get to do that. That's a judgment you
(23:15):
can't but you aren't allowed to make. Don't give me
that s Tell me the truth and let the chips fall.
It's it's the same sort of hubris that the sensors
and quota fillers and DEI folks have no trust us
with the power to be racist. Because we are so
wise and benevolent, we will fix the problems of society
(23:37):
using this terrible tool. No, you don't get to do
that next clip.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
But on autism, there's no good science of anything to
show what causes autism. We don't know. It's a profound disease.
I know many moms here and dads who have kids
with autis, know them personally, I've met their kids. But
the thing is is they saw their kids developing completely normal,
maybe making one hundred words go to no words at
(24:02):
about fifteen months of age. Now, there isn't proof. There
isn't proof that the vaccines cause it. That's true. There
isn't proof that it calls it. But we don't know
what causes it yet. So should we be at least
open minded we take seventy two vaccines. Could it be?
I don't know, But we shouldn't just close the door
and say we're no longer because we believe so much
in submission, we're not going to have an open mind
to study these things. And so it's sort of this
(24:25):
crazy notion.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Well, every parent has dealt with that. I remember when
I did, and then you just move on with your life.
When you start getting your kid shots there at the
hospital and there's so much going on and everything like that,
it's the first week of having a baby and know
everything like that, you don't research the dozens and dozens
and dozens of inoculations your kid gets. I hope that
you hope that they're they're right.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Settle two.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Is that that's the number that's floating around everywhere. That's
a lot. Yeah, it absolutely is. You know the point
Rand made that last screed that was a scientist talking
and the idea that you leap to one side or
the other and you're either in Eagles garb or Chief's garb,
if you will, on a question that is a million
(25:11):
miles from being decided. That's a bizarre way to approach signs.
Keeping in defensible, Keeping in mind that you Eagles jersey wears.
A lot of you were wearing Chiefs jerseys pre Trump
when you were anti vaccine because you were convinced vaccines
were causing autism. They're all liberals, Yeah, leading that charge
(25:31):
so strange.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Next, clip schizophrenia. I would put in the same notion.
You have a kid who's completely normal to eighteen or
nineteen and their brain goes heywire.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
How does that happen?
Speaker 5 (25:42):
It's the most bizarre disease. Shouldn't we be open Could
it be our food? Might be vaccines, It might be
our food. But autism is more common. I don't know
about the schizophrenia statistics, but autisms more common. Should we
want to be open minded? Instead, we're so close minded
and we're so consensus driven that thus and says this. Well,
science doesn't say anything. Science is a dispute, and ten
(26:05):
years from now we could all be wrong.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
There's more on that theme.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Twenty years ago, they did this enormous study and they
said everybody over fifty should take an aspirin. I thought, well,
that's a pretty good idea. It makes sense. But you
know what, twenty years later they measured it and they
found if you had no heart disease and you were
taking aspen, your chance of dying from a brain bleed
or from a stomach bleed were greater than the risk
of heart disease. You have heart disease, they still say
take an aspirin if you don't have changed your mind
(26:31):
twenty years later. But would you have all said I
was crazy and I should no longer be in public
discourse if I had said twenty years ago, I don't
feel like taking an asper. I ride my bike all
the time. I'm afraid I might hit my head. But
that's what country's about, what descent is about.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Excellent example, right, right, Or your neighbor might tackle you
over long clippings and you get a concussion. Finally, Oh again,
that's his dad, that's his dad, Jack. Finally this So, just.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
As you look at the larger picture and give the
guy break who says I just want to follow the
science where it leads without presupposition, I think, really what
we have up here is presupposition. You've already concluded it's
absolute that autism isn't caused by we don't know what
causes autism, so we should be more humble in what
we say. Sorry, I didn't get to a question.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
One of the very few times that I find a
rant to be you know, the juice worth the squeeze. Yeah,
the end of that need not be to you, whoever
you are. That Therefore, our FK. Junior is a perfect
choice to run HHS, you know, given his conflicts of
interest and stuff like that. I got some problems with
(27:42):
the guy. So there's that too. But the Randyman's absolutely correct.
We need to be more humble in the face of
scientific uncertainty. I represent science. You were wrong about f
thing everything you old gain of function promoting lying murderer. Yeah. Usually,
(28:09):
like I was just talking about, you know, your kid
gets all the jabs and you don't look into the however,
many dozens and dozens of different jabs with the sciences
on him. You just go with it on this one
on COVID because it was such a giant cataclysm, the
biggest non war disaster in non war non asteroid disaster
in world history. So we you know, we hit more
(28:33):
scrutiny around it, and it turns out, yeah, they were
wrong about everything they told us. Dang dang, near everything
was wrong, and so maybe you ought to be a
little more skeptical when they start laying out all these
guidelines and rules for whatever the hell it is before
we uh just accept them as fact. I represent science.
I mean, we had a little we had a little
experiment here where we we we found out they're regularly wrong.
(28:58):
Even people, some of them are not without motives. But
even the people without motives, they can be wrong. They
want to be right as much as you want to
be right, but they're wrong a lot. It's just just
the you know, the way the world works well. And
I would like to sentence to a six month self
examination camp anybody who said the lab leak theory was racist,
(29:21):
for instance, or that asking hard questions of the Chinese
government was somehow racist or might cause anti Chinese bias.
You people are dangerous. Yeah, I hope we've come out
of that period. Got a little more on that, and
maybe we'll get to it later. I do want to
(29:42):
talk about the new download for the Apple phone with
the AI in it. H some interesting stuff. My son
and I were doing it with yesterday, very fun I
don't know if it's improved my texting or not. My
son said, it's so much better. Texting is so much
better now. It gets it right, way more offen and
when it's guessing your word. Since that, I don't know.
(30:03):
I haven't funny. I just said less than twenty four
hours ago to my beloved bride. Apple's voiced text is
getting worse and worse. But who knows. My high school
son said, Dad, literally nobody voiced text, but you literally nobody,
I said, I think old people do. Maybe young people
flying thumbs. They you know, they got the flying thumbs well.
(30:27):
Plus they're terrified of speaking, and anybody's hearing the evans too. Yeah,
and they're doing it in class. Would be disruptive to
the teacher. So you got it. Maybe that's where you
get your practice. We've got Katie's headlines on the way
weird in the football this weekend. I'd have gotten in
a role of watching a game every a game or
(30:48):
more every weekend and nothing this weekend Grammys Sunday night.
I like the Grammys. Joe hates the Grammys, but no
football til next weekend. I hate the awards part of
the Grammys having a bunch of interesting music that you
might not be aware of. I'm in favor of that.
The ords are stupid. Let's figure out who's reporting what
it's the lead story with Katie Green already starting with ABC.
Speaker 6 (31:13):
NTSB says preliminary investigation to take thirty days.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Final report will take up to a year. I think
they're gonna nail down the why do we have half
as many air traffic controllers as we're supposed to have
nationwide pretty quickly. I think that's going to be figured
out much sooner than a year. And the airline pilots
have been complaining about the helicopter traffic around Reagan for decades,
(31:39):
saying it's really dangerous. You need to do something about.
Speaker 6 (31:44):
From CNN, Trump's cabinet nominees faced sharpest bipartisan grilling to date.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Yeah, Tulsey Gabbard's on the ropes, especially cash Betel, flying colors,
RFK coin flip.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
You say today FBI tells multiple senior leaders to resign
or be fired.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
I don't know this story. Okay, well do we know why.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
This is the DEI situation?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Oh? Okay, gotcha.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
President Trump's administration expanding its.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Purge, root and branch, as they say, you know, just
in general. I saw this graphy and Bremer put out
on his Twitter feed about Trumping going to war with
his own government or something like that was the headline
from something. You can easily divide people into two camps.
When you hear government employees are losing your job, you
(32:40):
think yay, or you think, oh, that's terrible because I'm
an immediate. Ya. When I hear government employees getting fired,
I mean, you know, there could be some extrenuous factors
that would change it. But my first emotion the shrinking
of any government agency is all right. But I know
(33:01):
people who's their first thought is all that's horrible. Okay,
that's a quick, pretty big dividing line between kinds of people.
Sit down, junior, let's talk about the deficit.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
From Fox News, Netan, Yahoo furious about chaotic handover of
Israeli hostages from Hamas.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Yeah, I wanted to get into that a little bit later.
Hamas has turned it into a we might kill you
or we might not. All right, I guess we'll let
you loose circus every time they turned hostages and touchdown
dancing about having one and everything. Whoa, that's rough.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
From NBC unprecedented number of lithium ion batteries complicating LA
wildfire cleanup.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Oh yeah, they'd burn with the heat of the sun
and take zillions of gallons of water to put out
those fires.
Speaker 5 (33:49):
It's an issue.
Speaker 6 (33:51):
From brightbart dot com made employees protest removal of tampons
from men's bathroom by bringing their own.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Right, go ahead, you dip s as nut jobs. This
is your big this is your big issue. You're a
real revolutionary or shade Rivera with your tampons for men. Ok,
this is the hill you're gonna die on? All right? Yeah? Wow,
you're the new MLK. What was your tampons for dudes stance?
(34:20):
Way to go farther than New York Post.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
South African woman has rescued more than twenty five hundred
of the lovable quote clowns of the dog world. She's
talking about pugs and at one point she had nineteen
of them in her house.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
That seems like plentyof.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
And your meme of the day, it's a picture of
a nice young woman and underneath it it says I'm
thirty five.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I have my whole life ahead of me.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
And the next to it is a picture of a
sports broadcaster and it says, here comes the oldest player
in the league.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
He's thirty two. A miracle. Yeah that is always where
about watching sports the old man who's thirty six? Yeah whatever.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
Finally, the Babylon B number of genders hits ten year low.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Yeah, I love that. Elon Musk tweeted out a great
graph number of genders in world from five thousand BC
until twenty twenty two, right from twenty twenty to like
a week ago seventy two, and from last week till
now back to two brilliant number of Genders hits all
(35:30):
time low. That's fantastic, Armstrong and Getty
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